Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 631

Configuring Hostname and DNS
If you did not change the network configuration during installation and the wired card
was available, a hostname was automatically generated for your computer and DHCP
was activated. The same applies to the name service information your host needs to
integrate into a network environment. If DHCP is used for network address setup, the
list of domain name servers is automatically filled with the appropriate data. If a static
setup is preferred, set these values manually.
To change the name of your computer and adjust the name server search list, proceed
as follows:
1 Select a card from the list of detected cards in the YaST network card configura-
tion module and click Edit.
2 In the Address tab, click Hostname and Name Server.
3 To disable DHCP-driven host name configuration, deselect Change Hostname
via DHCP.
4 Enter Hostname and, if it is needed, Domain Name.
5 To disable DHCP driven updates of the name server list, deselect Update Name
Servers and Search List via DHCP.
6 Enter the name servers and domain search list.
7 Click OK.
8 Click Next.
9 To activate the configuration, click Finish.
Configuring Routing
To make your machine communicate with other machines and other networks, routing
information must be given to make network traffic take the correct path. If DHCP is
used, this information is automatically provided. If a static setup is used, this data must
be added manually.
Basic Networking 615